I have tough veins to hit. If you need to get blood out of me, I recommend that you just sock me in the nose. The day before the Endoscopy, I went to get some lab work done - blood drawing time! I always tell the nice people, “Hey, I have really hard veins to hit. So if you don’t feel like you are the best person in the house on this, please grab someone else.”
Now, everyone ALWAYS feels like they are super qualified, and they normally have a go at me. So that little visit cost me blown veins in both hands. Yay.
So, during the Endoscopy, I had to get an IV. That lady was a PRO. She hooked me right up. But guess what? After the procedure, they want more blooood. So they send this kid in (he looked 18, sorry guy…I look young myself). I gave him the standard warning (”I have difficult veins to hit.”) He had a go…at MY HANDS! Already blew those veins out the day before, if you recall.
Anyway, he jacks up both my hands. I’m very patient, as I understand that he’s trying to do his job, and he’s got to learn and build confidence. But damn. Anyway, so he gets smart and tells me that he’s going to go get someone else. That lady walks in and POW! She strikes gold in the arm, first shot.
Let me now describe what my arms look like. I have two purple hands, a massive bruise where the IV was, and weird red spot in the place she finally got blood. Crazy. Guess what I got in the mail today?
“Our staff overlooked requesting this lab test….” Guess who gets to go get blood drawn!!! ME! Where are they going to get it from?? My chin?
Seriously, just sock me in the nose. It’s bound to hurt less, and for a shorter amount of time.
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Oct 28th, 2005 at 9:48 am
Jeeze, dude, that’s insane. I know Red Cross doles-out cookies & juice after blood drives, but you deserve a cake and some home-cooked meals after that blood letting.
Heal fast! Good luck.
Oct 28th, 2005 at 1:43 pm
My veins play hard to get too. I have willfully given blood once. #1 I hate needles, #2 I hate the sight of my own blood. I about passed out when I watched them take the blood out of me. I’m also very selfish. I have the type of blood that everyone needs. It just doesn’t want to come out. It’s fine in my veins.
I had to have some bloodwork done a few years ago, and they stabbed (and I mean stabbed) both arms in the elbow crook about 5 times each, tried my hands and missed, then decided they’d just stick me in the finger. They squeezed my finger until it was blue and started squeezing out air..
Then they called me back the next day to say “we didn’t get enough blood…we have to do it again.”
Oct 28th, 2005 at 6:53 pm
Never let em go for the hands, they have always failed on me. Like they did this week when they tried, although now my right arm looks like a heroin addicts arm. I’ve had blood drawn outta that arm 6 times this week. And thats not counting the worthless IVs and so called sedation. Heh, I am just happy to be off a liquid diet. The great thing is I get my test results on the 31st. Halloween. hahahaha